Duncan Jones To Bring The Life Of James Bond Creator Ian Fleming To The Big Screen

We’ve all been getting pretty excited over here recently with hints dropped on Duncan’s Twitter feed about future projects, but no one had any idea that Duncan and his producing partner Stuart Fenegan have been working away on something totally unexpected, but totally fantastic.

We are now very pleased to announce that Duncan will be bringing the amazing life of James Bond creator Ian Fleming to life in a new feature film going into production later this year. Read on, for the full press release 🙂 …

Duncan Jones and K5 Set Crosshairs On Ian Fleming

CANNES, FRANCE. Duncan Jones, the BAFTA Award-winning British director of Moon and international box office hit Source Code, will direct the action-packed story of one of Britain’s most celebrated yet mysterious legends – James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

Before Ian Fleming became the globally renowned best-selling author, his own life was no less exciting than that of the hero he created. Fleming travelled the world and masterminded real life top-secret operations, inspiring him to create James Bond. Duncan Jones’ take will explore and tie together those events in the author’s life that gave birth to Britain’s greatest superspy.

Duncan Jones remarked – “Fleming lived through one of the most perilous periods in world history, in a position that allowed him a unique vantage point of all the players, all the stakes. He witnesses true heroism first-hand. And he saw the evil men could do. Then, when the war ended, he went off to write fiction. The essential question for me is; where did Ian Fleming end and Bond begin?”

K5 Film (Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur), PalmStar Media Capital’s Kevin Frakes and Liberty Films’ Stuart Fenegan will produce the film in association with Jim Young and Robert Laycock of the Ian Fleming Estate. K5 International will handle worldwide rights.